An evening of food and music at one of Sydney’s much-loved Greek restaurants. A live Greek band will perform songs across a range of genres including boite, entechno, rock, laika and traditional Greek songs. A night to eat, dance and get lost in Greek musical history. Performers: Themis Ioakimidis, Irini Vacondios, John Zaharis and Sam Christodoulides.

During a time of uncertainty in Greece in the 1960s, award-winning composer Markopoulos challenged popular and conservatively held beliefs about how music could be put together.

He used instruments of his own invention and often used lyre, for example, in combination with Western piano – resulting in a rich variety of musical sounds.

Markopoulos was awarded the Music Prize for the International Thessaloniki Film Festival at the age of 24 and was also highly proficient at writing memorable singable melodies including the music for the BBC television series Who Pays the Ferryman.